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The young man seated on the bench reads his paper and chats with his wife about domestic matters and their daughter. As the conversation becomes more strained and personal, we realize the bench is in the courtyard of an institution where the young wife is an inmate, and the husband a visitor.

Beneath the Surface deals with a diverse and volatile group of teenagers and their innovative teacher who sets out to bridge differences and bring peace to the school. It addresses serious issues affecting today's teens, such as peer pressure, drug abuse, and self esteem.

Various authorsHigh School, Community TheaterWinners of the Baker's Plays High School Playwriting CompetitionBaker's Plays has been an advocate for theater in schools for over one hundred years. In the spirit of that commitment, we offer this playwriting competition for High School students. Plays may be about any subject and of any length. It is our hope that this competition will encourage aspiring high school authors to explore the creative possibilities of writin

The Troll Queen, in good old fairy tale fashion, has changed the Prince into a fierce white bear. He is befriended by a brave and lovely young girl. Because this girl threatens the Queen's magic, the Queen sends two of her henchmen to imprison the bear. To save him, the girl seeks the help of the Mother of the Winds. Charming, adventurous, classical children's theatre.

Six women, all members of the Red Feather Ladies Investment Club, discover they are all engaged to the same man. The gigolo was planning on feathering his nest with those Red Feather Ladies' investments. What to do? They will get their revenge. Each one, in her own unique and humorous way, comes up with a plan to teach the roving Romeo a lesson.

This story is as familiar as you remember. Mary Lennox, a sullen and spoiled young orphan, is sent to live with her brooding uncle at gloomy Misselthwaite Manor. Discovering a hidden, neglected garden, Mary plants the seeds of new life for all those drawn into her secret refuge. A wonderful story of transformation.

Genre: Murder Mystery, Comedy Characters: 4 male, 8 female Murder Inn is set in New England, at the Barnsley Inn, a dilapidated eighteenth century inn, which is supposedly haunted by Marco, a knife-throwing poltergeist. A group of tourists, on a tour-Ghosts and Ghouls of New England-is forced, by a storm, to make an unscheduled stop at the Barnsley. What looks to be an unpleasant and uncomfortable detour soon turns into a night of mayhem and madness as knives begin to pop up..

Edgar Allan Poe's life works are hauntingly dramatized in this play. The story is cleverly told through a series of dramatizations of the master's works: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Premature Burial, and The Poetic Principle. These stories are threaded together with the events of Poe's life as he deliriously remembers them on an anonymous deathbed in a Baltimore hospital. McElvain fully recreates each story on stage, often makin

An average American family acquires historic old Canterville Chase - complete with ghost! Sir Simon, the sporting spirit, succeeds in making life miserable. Then the Americans strike back.

Three elderly women meet at a lunch table on their first day in a home for senior citizens. A candle placed there by the matron awakens different memories in each.

We're in Mineola County again, where the Community Theatre is producing Romeo and Juliet. Even though the cast members don't have their lines memorized, the set isn't finished, and a dog keeps barking offstage, they're gonna give it a go!

Alice plunges down the rabbit hole and becomes involved in that madcap and deliciously satiric series of adventures immortalized by Lewis Carroll. A kaleidoscope of action and madness, with the necessary elements of suspense and frustration to make it all work.

"Once upon a time, a king had twelve beautiful daughters who danced in secret every night..." The king is mystified by their secret, and issues a challenge to the men of his kingdom - find out what his daughters are up to! Of course, one good-hearted young man succeeds - but at what cost? This story, recognizable to any defiant teenager or exasperated parent, is about the walls we build between each other, and how the power of love and communication can tear them

Granny can't tell her favorite fairy tales because someone really cruel and evil is stealing all the props! Breadcrumbs, magic beans, a basket of goodies, a glass slipper - all missing! The future of fairy tales is at stake, and it's up to the title character to set things right. With detective reasoning and his connections to the fairy tale underworld, plus some dumb luck, Nick Tickle sets out to locate the Mysterious Figure who's been pilfering all the props! He may

Thomas Jefferson, a middle school student, can't seem to focus in school. He is told he has ADD, or Attention Deficit Disorder, a condition that affects his ability to concentrate in class. With his widowed mom, a caring teacher, and his first potential girlfriend, Thomas comes up with a very creative solution to deal with his condition.

Folktales Flexible casts Simple sets, props and costumes Stones is a collection of three funny folktales about stones - a stone that makes blissful soup, stones that masquerade first as coins and then as jewels, and an innocent stone that is falsely accused of stealing. Stone Soup tells the story of a tramp who convinces a family of bickering sisters to help make a pot of soup that sweetens their natures and changes their lives.Robbers Are Everywhere

Characters: 4 male, 4 female, 1 unseen female (can be doubled) Simple Set What would it take to push your child over the edge Eve, a 16 year-old girl, has fallen asleep in the darkened, dingy corner of a deserted subway station, not far from the platform edge where Billy, her 18 year-old brother, chose to leave this world, and where she'll soon struggle to find the reasons NOT to follow him. ONE BULLIED CHILD IS ONE TOO MANY!

Musical / Characters: 5 female, 3 male singing leads, 12+ chorus / simple set Scores: Piano/Conductor, Synth, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Percussion. Instrumental track CD available. Luann and her school mates are stoked - it's the last day of school! Summer vacation's here! But will the high expectations soar or crash? Luann's big dream is to hook up with Aaron Hill. But she'll have to compete with hot cheerleader, Tiffany. Luann's doofus brother Brad desperately wants to impress beautiful

Comedy Characters: 8 female, 6 male or 9 female, 5 male, 1 extra, male or female. Interior Set Winner of the Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence. There's dirty work afoot at Ye Olde Wayside Inn, home of the eccentric Saltmarshes, Hepzibah and Arabelia, Cousin Ebenezer, and old Uncle Silas, oldest living lunatic in Massachusetts. The inn is also haunted by the ghost of an old soldier who deserted Washington at Valley Forge. Foul weather turns Cousin Ebe

Characters: 9 male, 3 femaleThe Great Grey Ghost of Old Spook Lane is about a little boy, Roger, who is new in town. The kids at school tell him about a haunted house and dare him to go in. Roger feels he has to do it to get "in" with the gang. So on a rainy night they all meet and push him in through a window. The lights go on. The house isn't empty. An elderly man lives there quietly. He used to be a sound effects man back in radio days he has all the equipment in the basement. They play a trick on the kids and invite them back for dinner. The house is filled with scary sound effects as the "Ghost" serves his "Ghostly Repast" of evil eye soup, phantom pie, etc. Everyone is scared except brave Roger.The kids learn a lesson about accepting new people and Roger learns there are limits to what you should do to be accepted.

C. B. Gilford Mystery Comedy Characters: 3 male, 6 female. Interior Set Detective Dennis O'Finn, investigating the death of an elderly lady, discovers that he is the motive for murder. Six sweet but slightly balmy ladies are all in love with their bachelor neighbor, the handsome, forty-ish, O'Finn. To lure him to visit, they stage a homicide. But to keep him around, they must do it again! Based on the enormously successful Bull in a China Shop, this charmer of a

Adapted by Mark Fitzgibbons from Charles Dickens Characters: 16 male, 10 female. Unit set Using an English inn yard in the mid-nineteenth century, the playwright creates a setting which solves the problem of presenting the countless locations in this tale of London and Paris, and the ingenious use of four narrators (innkeepers) has helped turn one of the great works of English literature into a tour-de-force for theatre groups everywhere! In this stunning treatment, the premise

Tim Kelly A Who Dunit Soap Opera Farce Characters: 5 male, 5 female. Interior Set Life in a soap opera meets life in a New York City penthouse with hysterical results! Old Horatio Tucker, sponsor of television's most popular daytime soap, "The Best Tears of Our Lives", has received an anonymous note telling him that the clue to his killer can be found in the next day's episode. Things become woefully muddled when a nasty network executive, Ivy Medea Robespierre, is done

Three one act fairy tales Colleen Neuman Three utterly charming plays from the author of our immensely popular Lion and Mouse Stories. The Princess and the Princess: flexible cast of 21, simple set, 30 minutes. A poor polite princess and a rich rude princess meet on a narrow mountain path and neither will move to let the other pass. Everyone who tries to help gets stuck on the mountain with them. After a riddle proves both princesses are "real", it is the poor princess

Adapted for the stage by Jules Tasca flexible castingOpen stage Telling Wilde TalesFairy Tales of Oscar Wilde This full evening's entertainment includes The Birthday of the Infanta, a sad tale of the broken hearted hunchback brought to the palace of the Princess of Spain; The Star Child, a poignant portrait of a boy who thinks he was sent to earth by a shooting star; The Happy Prince, in which a statue and a bird, through their generosity and unselfish spirits,

Brian Way Charatcers: 22 male, 12 female, extras. Doubling as low as 8 male & 4 female Within a framework using the character of the Mirrorman and the Toyman, imaginative adaptations of The Princess and the Pea, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Giant and the Golden Hairs and The Nightingale are interwoven. Length of production flexible depending on use of adaptations. For all ages.

"Adapted from the novel by Rudyard Kipling."

Book by Ross Mihalko and Donna SwiftMusic by Linda BergLyrics by Ross MihalkoMusical ComedyFlexible Casting; 2 to 15 male, 4 to 17 female (13-19 + characters total)Beanstalk! The Musical! is exactly like nothing you''ve ever seen before, not even in a book! This fun family show follows the adventures of Jack, a young boy with his head in the clouds and his nose in a book of fairytales. When the magic beans Jack trades for the family cow grows into